Russia's overlooked invasion : the causes of the 2014 outbreak of war in Ukraine's Donbas /

"The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022. It began eight years earlier in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. In his new book, Jakob Hauter investigates the escalation of violence in the spring and summer of 2014. He demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, the pre-2022 con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hauter, Jakob (Author)
Other Authors: Kuromiya, Hiroaki (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, [2023]
Series:Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 270.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The war's critical junctures
  • Digital forensic process tracing
  • Of arms and barricades: Donetsk and Luhansk
  • Enter Igor Girkin: The occupation of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk
  • Mariupol: Where separatism failed
  • The fighting spreads
  • the calibers grow
  • The tide turns: The Ukrainian defeat of August 2014
  • Conclusion.